This is an analysis of Be Sure Sin Will Find You Out by Martha Lavinia Hoffman.

Do you think, oh shrewd deceiver,
Because your well-laid plan,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacccc bdadXcXc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,
  • Metre: 11111100 011111 101001010 10100101 11001111 1101101 1101010 1001111 111001110 11100101 011101110 0101111 1100111101 00110101 001011101110 0100111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

you, it

Anaphora

you, it